Wednesday, 26 April 2017Dear Science Fetishes have been around for centuries - from the Marquis de Sade to Kinky Boots. But what does science have to say about fetishes? Agony aunt Bernie Hobbs answers life's tricky questions.Subjects: anthropology-and-sociology, psychology, indepthfeature

Friday, 22 July 2016Two-way conversation Not only do hunters in Mozambique recruit wild birds to help find honey, the birds actively recruit the hunters, reveals a new study of the remarkable relationship between humans and wild animalsSubjects: animal-behaviour, anthropology-and-sociology, birds, news

Tuesday, 5 April 2016Dark role of rituals Elaborate ritual killings such as being crushed under a newly built canoe and decapitation after being rolled off a house laid the foundations of class-based structures in modern societies.Subjects: anthropology-and-sociology, news

Thursday, 18 February 2016Human relations The genes of a Neanderthal that lived 100,000 years ago contain DNA from modern humans, indicating that humans left Africa and mated with Neanderthals much earlier than previously thought.Subjects: anthropology-and-sociology, evolution, genetics, news

Thursday, 11 February 2016Community spirit Belief in an all-seeing punitive god motivates people to be more charitable towards strangers outside their own family and community, particularly to those of similar beliefs, researchers have found.Subjects: anthropology-and-sociology, news

Friday, 5 February 2016Human migration The population of Stone Age Europe underwent a radical transformation toward the end of the last Ice Age, according to a study of ancient DNA.Subjects: anthropology-and-sociology, genetics, news

Thursday, 4 February 2016Land management The use of fire by Aborigines to modify their environment had little if any impact on the natural erosion processes that shaped parts of south-eastern Australia, a new study has found.Subjects: anthropology-and-sociology, ecology, news

Friday, 16 October 2015Paleo sleep We blame technology and the pace of modern life for our inability to sleep, but new research suggests our sleep patterns have not strayed far from our paleo roots.Subjects: anthropology-and-sociology, sleep, news

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